-> CYRANO: Ah no! young blade! That was a trifle short!
-> You might have said at least a hundred things
-> By varying the tone ... like this, suppose, ...
-> Aggressive: "Sir, if I had such a nose
-> I'd amputate it!" Friendly: When you sup
-> It must annoy you, dipping in your cup;
-> You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!"
-> Descriptive: " 'Tis a rock! ... a peak! ... a cape!
-> --A cape, forsooth! 'Tis a peninsular! "
-> Curious: "How serves that oblong capsular?
-> For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?"
-> Gracious: "You love the little birds, I think?
-> I see you've managed with a fond research
-> To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!"
-> Truculent: "When you smoke your pipe ... suppose
-> That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose--
-> Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher,
-> Cry terror-struck: "The chimney is afire"?"
-> Considerate: "Take care, ... your head bowed low
-> By such a weight ... lest head o'er heels you go!"
-> Tender: "Pray get a small umbrella made,
-> Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!"
-> Pedantic: "That beast Aristophanes
-> Names Anticonceptionnelles
-> Must have possessed just such a solid lump
-> Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead's bump!"
-> Cavalier: "The last fashion, friend, that hook?
-> To hang your hat on? 'Tis a useful crook!"
-> Emphatic: "No wind, O majestic nose,
-> Can give THEE cold!--save when the mistral blows!"
-> Dramatic: "When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!"
-> Admiring: "Sign for a perfumery!"
-> Lyric: "Is this a conch? ... a Triton you?"
-> Simple: "When is the monument on view?"
-> Rustic: "That thing a nose? Marry-come-up!
-> 'Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!"
-> Military: "Point against cavalry!"
-> Practical: "Put it in a lottery!
-> Assuredly 'twould be the biggest prize!"
-> Or ... parodying Pyramus' sighs ...
-> "Behold the nose that mars the harmony
-> Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!"
-> --Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said,
-> Had you of wit or letters the least jot:
-> But, O most lamentable man!--of wit
-> You never had an atom, and of letters
-> You have three letters only!--they spell Ass!
-> And--had you had the necessary wit,
-> To serve me all the pleasantries I quote
-> Before this noble audience ... e'en so,
-> You would not have been let to utter one--
-> Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest!
-> I take them from myself all in good part,
-> But not from any other man that breathes!
-->-- '''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'''

-> All right, twenty something betters. I start with the obvious:
-> Excuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face?
-> Meteorological: Everybody take cover, she will blow!
-> Fashionable: You could de-emphasise your nose if you wore something larger... like Wyoming.
-> Personal: Well, here we are... Just the three of us.
-> Punctual: Okay, your nose was on time, but you were 10 minutes late.
-> Envious: Oh, I wish I were you... to be able to smell your own ear!
-> Naughty: Some of the ladies have asked if you would put that thing away.
-> Philosophical: It is not the size of a nose that is important... it is what is in it that matters.
-> Humorous: Laugh and the world laughs with you... sneeze and it is goodbye,Seattle.
-> Commercial: Hi, I am Earl Scheib and I can paint that nose for $100!
-> Polite: Would you mind not bobbing your head? The orchestra keeps changing the tempo.
-> Melodic: Everybody. He has got the whole world in his nose.
-> Sympathetic: What happened? Did your parents lose a bet with God?
-> Complimentary: You must love the birdies... to give them this to perch on.
-> Scientific: Say, does that thing there influence the tides?
-> Obscure: Whoa, I would hate to see the grindstone. Well, think about it.
-> Inquiry: When you stop and smell the flowers... are they afraid?
-> French: The pigs have refused to find any more truffles... until you leave.
-> Pornographic: Finally a man who can satisfy two women at once. How many is that?
-> - Fourteen, Chief.
-> All right, religious:The Lord giveth ...and He just kept on giving, did he not? Fifteen.
-> Disgusting: Say, who mows your nose hair? Sixteen.
-> Paranoid: Keep that guy away from my cocaine! Seventeen.
-> Aromatic: It must be wonderful to wake up in the morning and smell the coffee...in Brazil. Eighteen.
-> Appreciative: Oh, how original.Most people just have their teeth capped.Nineteen.
-> All right... [...] Dirty: Your name would not be Dick, would it?
-->-- The same scene in ''Film/{{Roxanne}}''